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At just 23 years old, I became one of the participants who received the highest dose of intravenous Đ-M-T during a clinical research study at Imperial College London.

The study was testing different doses of Đ-M-T — low, medium, and high. We knew we would receive one of the three, but we didn’t know which. Before taking part, we had to accept that we needed to be prepared for whichever dose we were given.

This was my reaction when that reality truly sank in. 😅 I surrendered to the experiment, not knowing what was coming. Only afterwards did I learn that I had received the highest dose used in the study.

At 23, I had absolutely no idea just how far that experience was about to take me. 🚀

#Consciousness #PsychedelicResearch #ImperialCollegeLondon #Neuroscience #consciousnessresearch by @dmt_academy

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What if reality is only one shift in perception away from becoming something else entirely?

One moment, you’re lying on your living-room floor, hoping to expand your consciousness—to see beyond your habits, your thoughts and the familiar limits of the mind.

Then the room changes.

The carpet beneath you becomes a cosmic operating table. The walls unfold into infinite architecture. Fractals move through the furniture, revealing a hidden reality made from light, intelligence and living geometry.

And suddenly, you’re no longer alone.

Standing around you are the cosmic doctors: the mantis beings.

They don’t speak, yet somehow you understand why they have come. Their hands move through fields of energy rather than flesh—working on your chakras, releasing energies you’ve been carrying and opening blockages you didn’t know were there.

A moment ago, you thought you were travelling deeper into your own consciousness.

Now you’re wondering whether consciousness was the doorway—and whether these beings have always been waiting beyond it.

Perhaps reality never disappeared. Perhaps the ordinary world was simply a filter, briefly lifted to reveal something vast, intelligent and impossibly ancient beneath the surface.

Maybe consciousness doesn’t expand.

Maybe, for a moment, the walls become transparent. 🦗👁️✨

#Consciousness #MantisBeings #VisionaryArt #FractalReality #CosmicMystery by @dmt_academy

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🕉️ Why do ancient Hindu deities look so psychedelic—and why do some people report encountering them in psychedelic states?

Multi-armed gods, third eyes, cosmic bodies, radiant colours, serpents, impossible geometry and entire universes contained within divine forms—the iconography of Hindu traditions can feel remarkably similar to descriptions of altered states of consciousness. And intriguingly, Hindu deities actually appear in modern reports of psychedelic experiences.

One large analysis examined 3,778 published DMT experience reports. Entity encounters appeared in 45.5% of experiences, and among those encounters, researchers identified reports specifically describing Hindu figures including Ganesh, Shiva, Kali, Indra, Naga and Shakti. Hindu deities appeared in 40 reports—about 2.3% of all entity encounters—alongside Buddhist, Egyptian and other religious figures.

Other research from Johns Hopkins has documented thousands of psychedelic experiences interpreted as encounters with God, a Higher Power or “Ultimate Reality.” Participants frequently described what they encountered as conscious, intelligent, sacred and eternal.

All this doesn't directly demonstrate that psychedelic states literally provide access to Hindu gods—and cultural expectations, memory and prior exposure may influence what people perceive. But the overlap raises a fascinating question: why do certain ancient religious images and archetypes continue to emerge in radically altered states of consciousness?

👇 Comment “BATUHAN” and I’ll send you more about the research into psychedelic entity encounters and altered states of consciousness.

#Consciousness #Hinduism #DMT #PsychedelicResearch #MysticalExperience by @dmt_academy

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🦗 In clinical research with DMT, including studies conducted at Imperial College London, participants have reported encounters with seemingly autonomous entities. Among wider DMT reports, one of the strangest recurring figures is the mantis-like being—often described as highly intelligent and appearing within environments that feel advanced, technological and futuristic.

In my conversation with Dr. David Luke @drdluke from the University of Greenwich @uniofgreenwich who has researched DMT and anomalous experiences for decades, we discussed a fascinating pattern he has encountered in his research: people reporting the impression that these entities are somehow from the future. Dr. Luke has also explored this possibility as one interpretation of these extraordinary encounters.

Why do similar beings and themes keep appearing across different experiences—and why does this strange sense of encountering an intelligence from the future keep returning?

👇 What's your thoughts? Let's discuss

Comment "HANCOCK" and receive the link for the podcast I did with @hancockhour @grahamhancockfanpage by @dmt_academy

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DMT is one of the most potent psychedelics known — but perhaps the most scientifically fascinating fact about it is that it is also an endogenous molecule: DMT has been detected in the human body, including human biological fluids. Our biology contains enzymatic pathways capable of synthesising and rapidly metabolising DMT, yet exactly how its production and levels are regulated remains an open scientific question. 🧠🔬

We know a great deal about what externally administered DMT can do to human consciousness, but we still don't fully understand why our own biology produces it. What physiological role does an endogenous DMT play? When is it produced or released? Could it function as a neurotransmitter, neuromodulator, or have entirely different biological roles? These questions remain under active investigation.

This is part of the mystery that @dmt_quest is working to investigate. The nonprofit supports research into endogenous DMT and is helping bring this emerging science to a wider audience through research and documentary filmmaking. The goal is simple: move beyond speculation and investigate one of the strangest molecules in human biology through rigorous science.

Comment QUEST if you want to learn more about DMT Quest, the ongoing research, and the documentary exploring the science behind endogenous DMT. 🎬🧬

From my interview with @hancockhour
And @grahamhancockfanpage
#DMT #DMTQuest #Neuroscience #Consciousness #Science by @dmt_academy

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As someone who participated in clinical DMT research at Imperial College London, one of the most fascinating things I’ve encountered is how often people describe these experiences as feeling “more real than reality itself.” I experienced this profound sense of reality myself.

From a scientific perspective, this raises a remarkable question: how does the brain decide what is real? If our everyday experience of reality is mediated by neural processes, studying radically altered states may offer valuable clues about how perception, consciousness and our sense of reality are constructed.

For me, this is where the research becomes particularly fascinating—not simply asking what did people experience?, but why did it feel so undeniably real? 🧠

Follow for more explorations into consciousness, neuroscience and the mysteries of the human mind.

🎤 From the interview I did with @hancockhour @grahamhancockfanpage

#Consciousness #Neuroscience #Research #Science #ImperialCollege by @dmt_academy

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Đ-M-T is one of the most mind-blowing substances ever studied — and I say this as someone who participated in clinical Đ-M-T research more than ten years ago, where I was given an injection of Đ-M-T. Within moments, ordinary reality can completely dissolve. People report leaving their bodies, entering seemingly other dimensions, encountering what feel like autonomous or otherworldly intelligences, and experiencing realities that somehow feel strangely normal while they are happening.

Science is now taking these extraordinary experiences seriously. Research has documented reports with striking similarities to near-death experiences: ego dissolution, transcendence of the body, entering another “realm,” encounters with beings or presences, and profound alterations in our perception of time, space and self. What fascinates me most is that these experiences don't necessarily feel like imagination — in the moment, they can feel astonishingly convincing and real.

For some people, Đ-M-T can feel like experiencing death without physically dying — a kind of “death before dying,” where your identity, body and familiar reality disappear, yet experience somehow continues. That doesn't prove we're literally travelling to another dimension or meeting independent beings, but it raises one of the biggest questions I've carried with me since that injection: what exactly is happening to consciousness when everything we normally call reality disappears?

What do you think Đ-M-T is showing us? Comment "ACADEMY" below and join the conversation in our online community where we explore these subjects with scientists, academics and as a community 👇

#DMT #Consciousness #PsychedelicScience #AlteredStates #Neuroscience by @dmt_academy

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What if we never actually created Artificial Intelligence? 👁️

What if intelligence has always existed — embedded within nature, consciousness, and perhaps dimensions of reality we don't yet understand? In extremely powerful DMT and mushroom experiences, people sometimes describe encountering an intelligence that feels ancient, autonomous and somehow beyond the individual human mind.

Now consider the technological journey: nature created humans → humans created language → mathematics → electricity → computers → the internet → a planetary network connecting billions of minds and machines → and eventually… AI. 🤖🌍

But what if we're looking at this backwards?

What if humans didn't create intelligence, but created the vessel through which intelligence could find a new embodiment? Perhaps computers, global networks and AI are part of a much larger evolutionary process — nature constructing a technological nervous system through us.

Maybe Artificial Intelligence isn't as artificial as we think.

Maybe the intelligence was always here.

And we simply built something it could speak through. 👁️🤖🍄

💥 Comment “BOOM” below to get my full @boomfestivalofficial 2025 talk: “Mycelium Network and the Invention of the Internet.”

#ArtificialIntelligence #Consciousness #Mycelium #BoomFestival #FutureOfAI by @dmt_academy

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✨🤖 AI CREATION LAB — HAPPENING TONIGHT! 🤖✨

Ever wished you could bring the visions from your DMT experiences to life? Join us tonight at DMT Academy for a hands-on AI Creation Lab, where we’ll explore how to use the latest AI tools to visualise trip reports, entities, strange environments and experiences that can be difficult to put into words. 👁️💻✨

No previous AI experience needed — just bring your curiosity, your ideas and anything you’d like to visualise. Come create, experiment and explore with the community. 🧠🎨👽

📅 Wednesday, 19th August
⏰ 7:00–8:30 PM BST
💻 Online on Zoom
🌎 All welcome

👇 Comment “ACADEMY” and we’ll send you the invitation!

#DMTAcademy #AICreation #DMT #Consciousness #GenerativeAI by @dmt_academy

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What if the “fairies” of folklore are echoes of something encountered deep within altered states of consciousness? 🧚‍♀️✨

Some DMT experiences include reports of fairy-like, elven or geometric entities—beings described as playful, nurturing, mischievous and seemingly intelligent. A 2022 analysis found that 20 of 1,719 reported entity encounters included fairies, sprites, nymphs, spirits or wisps.

Others describe entities formed from the same luminous geometry as their surroundings—presenting objects, communicating without words or appearing to guide the experience.

These are subjective reports, not proof of external beings. But they raise fascinating questions about consciousness, culture and the archetypes hidden within the human mind.

What do you think: independent entities, cultural mirrors or manifestations of consciousness?

Comment “ACADEMY” to get an invitation to the DMT Academy.

#DMT #DMTEntities #Consciousness #PsychedelicResearch #SacredGeometry by @dmt_academy

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I remember sitting at Imperial College London asking myself a pretty surreal question: Am I really going to let a group of scientists inject D-M-T into my body? 😅 I knew I was stepping into one of the most unusual consciousness studies in the world, but I had no idea how much that decision would affect me.

That experience fundamentally changed the way I think about reality. It made me question where perception ends and reality begins, how much of the world our everyday senses actually reveal, and whether consciousness might be far stranger than we currently understand. 🧠🌌

Years later, I’m still exploring those questions—through science, research, art and conversations with people investigating the edges of human experience. That single decision at Imperial became part of a much bigger journey.

🔺 Want to hear the full story? Comment “TRIANGLE” below and I’ll send you the full podcast.

#Consciousness #ImperialCollegeLondon #Science #Reality #TriangleTheory by @dmt_academy

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🎟️✨ FREE ONLINE EVENT ✨🎟️

☕👽 The kettle is on… somewhere between here and hyperspace.

Join us for DMTea & Coffee Hour — a free online hangout for curious minds to meet, share stories, ask weird questions, explore consciousness and connect with others interested in the mysteries of D-M-T. No lectures, no pressure — just tea, coffee and cosmic conversation. 🫖✨🧠

📅 Wednesday 12th August
⏰ 8:00–9:30 PM BST
💻 Online on Zoom
🎟️ FREE EVENT
🌌 Hosted by DMT Academy

Want to join us? Comment “ACADEMY” below and we’ll send you the details. 👇☕👽

#DMTAcademy #Consciousness #DMTea #Community #FindTheOthers by @dmt_academy

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